In Maryland, A Change In How Hospitals Are Paid Boosts Public Health

New York City's health department launched the "Maybe the IUD" campaignthis week, aimed at increasing awareness about the IUD as a highly effective and low-maintenance option for birth control.
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"Because he wasn't raised where health was an issue in the household. There was nobody talkin' about health, probably nobody talking about not smoking or drinking or unhealthy practices, what it could lead to. There was nobody talkin' about that."
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
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A child suffering from dengue fever lies in a bed in the isolation ward of a Rawalpindi, Pakistan, hospital in November 2013. There is no treatment for dengue, whose symptoms include fever, severe joint pain, headaches and bleeding.
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